Rabha language

Rabha
Rabha
Rába katha
ৰাভা
Native to	India
Region	Assam, West Bengal
Native speakers	139,986 (2011 census)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Bodo–Garo Koch; Rabha; ;
Dialects	Maituri; Rongdani;
Writing system	Assamese script, Bengali script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	rah
Glottolog	rabh1238
ELP	Rabha

Rabha is a

Brahmaputra, is highly divergent and is not intelligible to a Róngdani or Mayturi speaker" (page ix). Joseph also writes that "[t]he dialect variations between Róngdani and Mayturi, both of which are spoken on the southern bank of the Brahmaputra, in the Goalpara district of Assam

and belong to the northern slopes of Meghalaya, are minimal" (pages ix-x). He concludes the paragraph on dialectal variation with: "The Róngdani-Mayturi dialectal differences become gradually more marked as one moves further west" (page x).

In 2007, U.V. Joseph published a grammar of Rabha with Brill in their series Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region.[3]

Geographical distribution

According to the Ethnologue, Rabha is spoken in the following areas of India.

Darrang district, Goalpara district, and Kamrup district, western Assam
Nagaland
Jalpaiguri district and Alipurduar district, West Bengal
Koch Bihar district
East Garo Hills district and West Garo Hills district, Meghalaya

References

^ Rabha at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Joseph, U.V. 2000. Rabha–English dictionary khúrangnala. Guwahati: Don Boco Publications.
^ Joseph, U.V. 2007. Rabha. Leiden: Brill.

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[e18-1] Rabha at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] Joseph, U.V. 2000. Rabha–English dictionary khúrangnala. Guwahati: Don Boco Publications.

[3] Joseph, U.V. 2007. Rabha. Leiden: Brill.

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Geographical distribution

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